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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2001 | | 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamedeveloper.com) |
| 593 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2018 | | Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com) |
| 591 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2019 | | To be great, be good, repeatably (blog.stephsmith.io) |
| 590 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 1880 | | Golden Rules for Making Money (fourmilab.ch) |
| 586 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2013 | | Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 584 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 2009 | | Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (sivers.org) |
| 581 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2010 | | Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (raptitude.com) |
| 577 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 247 comments |
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| 2013 | | Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (audioasylum.com) |
| 575 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 746 comments |
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| 2014 | | Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (dougseven.com) |
| 574 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 273 comments |
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| 2019 | | Python built-ins worth learning (treyhunner.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2007 | | Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (theguardian.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (mako.cc) |
| 570 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 386 comments |
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| 2019 | | Challenging projects every programmer should try (austinhenley.com) |
| 568 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 324 comments |
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| 2003 | | Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (info.ucl.ac.be) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2014 | | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (lcamtuf.blogspot.com) |
| 561 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1998 | | Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (lists.squeakfoundation.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2016 | | Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (washingtonpost.com) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2006 | | Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (math.dartmouth.edu) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2017 | | The cult of dd (eklitzke.org) |
| 557 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 223 comments |
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| 1989 | | Why is electricity so hard to understand? (amasci.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why I did not go to jail (a16z.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2019 | | If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (smallstep.com) |
| 555 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 332 comments |
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| 2017 | | Badssl.com (badssl.com) |
| 554 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | I hate telephones (jameshfisher.com) |
| 553 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2000 | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 552 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2016 | | Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released (files.scene.org) |
| 551 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2012 | | Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com) |
| 549 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2018 | | A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (bloomberg.com) |
| 547 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2019 | | Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (codeblog.jonskeet.uk) |
| 547 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 184 comments |
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| 2010 | | Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (arxiv.org) |
| 546 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (newyorker.com) |
| 543 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2018 | | I Write Letters to CEOs (johnwdefeo.com) |
| 536 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2012 | | Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com) |
| 535 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1940 | | The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (charliechaplin.com) |
| 533 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 371 comments |
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| 2013 | | Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (righto.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2010 | | Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (theguardian.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2019 | | There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (nytimes.com) |
| 529 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 2012 | | Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu) |
| 527 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com) |
| 526 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 525 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2011 | | If PHP Were British (aloneonahill.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 364 comments |
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| 2008 | | You weren't meant to have a boss (paulgraham.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2011 | | Insulation: First the body, then the home (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 523 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 302 comments |
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| 2015 | | Audio engineer explains NPR's signature sound (current.org) |
| 522 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2019 | | How to write a bootloader from scratch (interrupt.memfault.com) |
| 521 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 246 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 102 comments |
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